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Re:Continuous Growth Is Cancer by gruez on Friday March 03, 2023 @11:40PM (#35018238)
>I was referring to what I've seen mentioned more than a few times in HN comments where, apparently, FAANGs or some teams therein have engineering manager positions where the size of the team that one leads greatly translates to that employee's success (perceived or real) in the company

How does that translate into tech companies overhiring? Even if managers want more people on their team for progression purposes, they can't exactly expand their team to whatever size they want. They're subject to budgets set by finance.

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Re:Continuous Growth Is Cancer by rTX5CMRXIfFG on Saturday March 04, 2023 @01:03AM (#35018616)
I could be wrong of course—after all my comment is from the POV of an outsider looking in.

But, just going by what you said—if budget is supposed to be a constraint, well, FAANGs have the money to waste, don’t they? Also, hiring for hiring’s sake makes sense from a strategic standpoint especially during their respective growth eras—they needed to deplete the industry of the best programmers around, so that entrepreneurs can’t just startup and compete with them and take away their business.

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